Detect and alert of forgotten items left in a vehicle
AssigneeLodestar Licensing Group LLC
InventorsPoorna Kale, Robert Richard Noel Bielby
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Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatuses to detect an item left in a vehicle and to generate an alert about the item. For example, a camera configured in a vehicle can be used to monitor an item associated with a user of the vehicle. The item as in an image from the camera can be identified and recognized using an artificial neural network. In response to a determination that the item recognized in the image is left in the vehicle after the user has exited the vehicle, an alert is generated to indicate that an item is in the vehicle but the user is leaving the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicle, comprising:
- at least one camera configured to have a field of view of items positioned within the vehicle;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- identify an item in an image captured by the at least one camera;
- identify a person associated with the item in the vehicle;
- and
- determine whether the person intends to leave the item in the vehicle.
A method, comprising:
- capturing, using at least one camera configured in a vehicle and configured to have a field of view of items positioned within the vehicle, an image;
- identifying, by a processor configured in the vehicle, an item in the image captured by the at least one camera;
- identifying, by the processor, a person associated with the item in the vehicle;
- and
- determining, by the processor, whether the person intends to leave the item in the vehicle.
A non-transitory computer storage medium storing instructions which, when executed in a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method, comprising:
- capturing, using at least one camera configured in a vehicle and configured to have a field of view of items positioned within the vehicle, an image;
- identifying, by a processor configured in the vehicle, an item in the image captured by the at least one camera;
- identifying, by the processor, a person associated with the item in the vehicle;
- and
- determining, by the processor, whether to generate an alert to the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.